As Per AMA for over two decades: The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives.
Revised Definition of Marketing In 2007 the AMA adopted a revised definition of marketing:
Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, and delivering exchange offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners and society at large.
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Costs include the money paid for the product or service as well as other factors such as acquiring information, making the purchase, learning how to use a product/service, maintaining, and disposing of it.
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What is IMC??
Don Schultz of Northwestern University says : IMC is a strategic business process used to plan, develop, execute and evaluate coordinated, measurable, brand communications programs over time with consumers, customers, prospects, employees, associates and other targeted relevant external and internal audiences.
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The value of strategically integrating the various communication functions rather than having them operate autonomously. How to target consumers through telemarketing, direct mail and direct response advertising due to growth and development of database marketing Demands for greater accountability from advertising agencies and compensation force agencies to consider a variety of communication tools and less expensive alternatives to mass media advertising.
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Continued.
The rapid growth of the Internet changing the nature of how companies do business and how they communicate and interact with consumers.
Shift from only advertising-focused approaches based on mass media such as television and national magazines, to solve communication problems and more attention to smaller, targeted media alternatives.
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Promotion is defined as the coordination of all sellerinitiated efforts to set up channels of information and persuasion to sell goods and services or promote an idea. The promotional mix is defined as the basic tools or elements that are used to accomplish organizations objectives.
Advertising
Personal Selling
Direct Marketing
Sales Promotion
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Advertising
Any paid form of non personal communication about an organization, product, service, or idea by an identified sponsor.
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Advertising
Advantages Cost-effective way for communicating, particularly with large audiences. Differentiating similar products and services and a valuable tool for creating and maintaining brand equity Ability to strike responsive chord with audience through creative advertising Disadvantages The cost of producing and placing ads can be very high, particularly television commercials It can be difficult to determine the effectiveness of advertising There are credibility and image problems associated with advertising The vast number of ads has created clutter problems and consumers are not paying attention to much of the advertising they see and/or hear
Opportunity to leverage popular advertising campaigns into successful IMC programs ability to control the message
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National Advertising done by large companies on a nationwide basis. Ads for well-known brands and companies shown on television
Retail / Local Advertsing done by retail and local merchants encouraging consumers to shop at a specific store, use a local service, or patronize a particular establishment
Primary v/s Selective Advertising primary demand advertising is designed to stimulate demand for the general product class or industry. Selective-demand focuses on creating demand for a specific company and/or its brands.
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Business-to-Business Advertising: advertising that targets individuals who buy or influence the purchase of industrial goods or services for their companies.
Professional advertising advertising targeted to professionals such doctors, lawyers, engineers, and the like.
Trade advertising targeted to marketing channel members such as wholesalers, distributors, and retailers.
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Direct Marketing
It is a system of marketing by which organizations communicate directly with target customers to generate a response and/or a transaction. Direct marketing has not traditionally been considered an element of the promotional mix.
Direct Mail
Internet Sales Direct Marketing
Shopping Channels
Catalogues
Tele marketing
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Direct Marketing
Advantages:
Changes in society (two-income households, greater use of credit) have made consumers more receptive to the convenience of direct-marketed products Allows a company to be very selective and target its marketing communications to specific customer segments. Messages can be customized to fit the needs of specific market segments Effectiveness of direct-marketing efforts are easier to assess than other forms of promotion
Disadvantages:
Consumers and businesses are being bombarded with unsolicited mail and phone calls which makes them less receptive to directmarketing Direct marketing has image problems. Problems with clutter as there are too many directmarketing messages competing for consumers attention
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Interactive/Internet Marketing
Interactive media allows back-and-forth flow of information whereby users can participate in and modify the content of the information they receive in real time.
Obtains customer database information Educates or informs customers
The Internet
Communicates and interacts with buyers A persuasive advertising medium Provides customer service and support A sales tool or an actual sales vehicle Builds and maintains customer relationships
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Interactive/Internet Marketing
Advantages The Internet can be used for a variety of IMC functions including advertising, direct marketing, sales promotion, public relations and selling Messages can be tailored to appeal to the specific interests and needs of the target audience The interactive nature of the Internet leads to a higher degree of customer involvement when customers are visiting a web site.
Disadvantages The Internet is not yet a complete mass medium as only a quarter of Indian households have access to the Internet. Many Internet users do not pay attention to banner ads and the click-through rate on most is extremely low.
There is a great deal of clutter on the Internet which makes it difficult for advertising messages to be noticed and/or given attention.
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Sales Promotion
Marketing activities that provide extra value or incentive to the sales force, distributors, or the ultimate consumer and can stimulate immediate sales.
Sales promotion is generally broken into two major categories: consumer-oriented trade-oriented activities.
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Sales Promotion
Can be..
Consumer-oriented
Coupons /Samples /Premiums Contest/Sweepstake Refunds/Rebates Bonus Packs /Loyalty Programs
Trade-oriented
Trade Allowances POP Displays / Training Programs
Events
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Sales Promotion
Advantages Provides extra incentive to consumer or middlemen to purchase or stock and promote a brand
Disadvantages
Many companies are becoming too reliant on sales promotion and focusing too much attention on short-run marketing planning and performance Problems with sales promotion clutter as consumers are bombarded with too many coupons, contests, sweepstakes and other promotional offers In some industries promotion wars may develop whereby marketers sales promotion incentives extensively which results in lower profit margins and makes it difficult to sell products at full price
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Publicity/Public Relations
Publicitynon-personal communications about an organization, product, service, or idea that is not directly paid for nor run under identified sponsorship.
Public Relationsa management function that evaluates public attitudes, identifies the public policies and procedures of an individual or organization with the public interest, and executes a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance.
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Publicity/Public Relations
Advantages
credibility of publicity is usually higher than other forms of marketing communication
low cost way of communicating often has news value and generates word-of-mouth discussion among consumers Can be negative as well as positive Disadvantages Lack of control over what is said, when, where and how it is said
Public relations generally has a broader objective than publicity, as its purpose is to establish and maintain a positive image of the company among its various publics
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Publicity Vehicles
Feature Articles
News Releases
Interviews
Publicity Vehicles
Press Conference
Special Events
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Public Relations
Systematically planning and distributing information in an attempt to control and manage image and the nature of the publicity received. Activities of persons or organizations intended to promote understanding of and good will toward themselves or their products or services
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Public Relations
Publicity Vehicles Special Publications Community Activities Corporate Advertising
Cause-related Marketing
Special Event Sponsorship
Personal Selling
Personal Selling is a direct person-to-person communication whereby a seller attempts to assist and/or persuade prospective buyers to purchase a companys product or service or act on an idea. Unlike Advertising, personal selling involves direct contact between buyer and seller
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Personal Selling
Advantages Direct contact between buyer and seller allows for more communication flexibility Can tailor and adapt message to specific needs or situation of the customer Allows for more immediate and direct feedback Promotional efforts can be targeted to specific markets and customers who are best prospects.
Disadvantages
High cost per contact (depending on the industry) Expensive way to reach large audiences Difficult to have consistent and uniform message delivered to all customers
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Advertising Agencies
Advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion) for its clients.
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Full Service Ad Agencies are well equipped to plan and create advertising campaigns for a range of media including TV commercials, Radio jingles, print advertisements etc.
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Planning advertising
Selecting media
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Package design
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Types of Ad Agencies
Full Service Research department, may include account planners, media dept. obtains media space, time, media planning and buying, sales promotion, creative services that includes Creation, execution of ads, copywriter artists, other specialists and interactive media
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Creative boutiques
These types of agencies specialize in and provide only advertising creative services. They have creative personnel such as writers or artists on staff but do not have media, research or account planning capabilities.
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